On this day: India’s Chetan Sharma picked up the first-ever World Cup hat-trick
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On this day: India’s Chetan Sharma picked up the first-ever World Cup hat-trick

On October 31, 1987, India’s Chetan Sharma scripted historical past by turning into the primary bowler to take a World Cup hat-trick. Incidentally, this was additionally the primary occasion of an Indian taking a hat-trick (in any format of the sport). The undeniable fact that Sharma achieved this feat on the largest stage makes it all of the extra particular.

The right-arm quick bowler Sharma, reached the landmark in India’s remaining group stage sport towards New Zealand at Nagpur when through the 42nd over, he clear bowled Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield on three successive deliveries – at an important juncture within the sport and turned the tides in his facet’s favor.

New Zealand had gained the toss and opted to bat first and the match regarded aggressive with the Kiwis at 182/5 earlier than Sharma’s heroics made it 182/eight and the guests may solely muster 221/9 from their 50 overs. Sharma completed with figures of 10-2-51-3.

Chasing the entire, Sunil Gavaskar’s 103* (off 88 balls) and Kris Srikkanth’s 75 (off 58 balls) took India to a snug 9-wicket win ultimately and the defending champions, India, certified for the semi-finals the place they sadly misplaced out to England.

Sharma was additionally a useful batsman and performed a number of gritty knocks for the nation, though his major position was that of a brand new ball bowler – as he had the flexibility to maneuver the ball each methods. He constructed up a profitable bowling partnership with the legendary Kapil Dev.

Sharma final performed for India in 1994 and have become a famous commentator in a while. He performed 23 Tests and 65 ODI’s for India, picking-up 61 and 67 wickets respectively.

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